by Emilie Froment | Jan 11, 2022 | Art & Galleries, Design & Architecture, FOCUS Features, Garden Design & Decor, Lifestyle, Lighting, Posts, Travel, Walls, Floors & Windows
The NM Bodecker Foundation was established in 2017 by Sandy Bodecker to provide creative communities with a dynamic mix of in-person spaces for workshops, gathering, and collaboration. Housed in a collection of repurposed 1950s-era warehouses and a former...
by Emilie Froment | Dec 16, 2021 | Art & Galleries, Bathrooms, Bedrooms, Design & Architecture, Furniture, Garden Design & Decor, Home Decor, Kitchens, Lifestyle, Lighting, Posts, Smart Homes, Travel, Walls, Floors & Windows
The expansive vista of wildflower-laden bluffs meeting the churning Pacific where gray whales seasonally leap from the waves is the unique and dynamic setting of this home for a couple with nostalgic connections to their East Coast roots and a newfound desire...
by Emilie Froment | Oct 8, 2021 | Art & Galleries, Design & Architecture, Events, Home Decor, Lifestyle, Posts
South Africa’s own Jan Ernst is a multidisciplinary creative specialising in functional art and spatial design using clay as his main medium. The work is driven by his fascination with natural structures such as corals, fungi, and rock formations. His organic...
by Emilie Froment | Jun 10, 2021 | Art & Galleries, Design & Architecture, Events, Furniture, Home Decor, Lifestyle, Posts, Travel
In 2020, she made history when she became the first South African designer ever to have her work collected by the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, for their permanent collection. Not a trivial detail, not in anyone’s books. . . anywhere in the world,...
by Emilie Froment | Jun 3, 2021 | Art & Galleries, Lifestyle, Posts, Travel, Walls, Floors & Windows
From the outside, a dilapidated, stark white building with its silver roof stands bleached by the Karoo desert sun. We sense a subtle yet tempting invitation to step into the mystery through a rustic door that leads into a pitch-black space. Black Room is an...
by Emilie Froment | Apr 27, 2021 | Art & Galleries, Design & Architecture, Events, Home Decor, Lifestyle, Posts, Walls, Floors & Windows
In the wake of a recent return from a three-and-a-half-year sabbatical stopover in Mexico where Christiaan Conradie travelled with the wild and determined intention of learning Spanish there and surfing its Pacific paradise, we’re swaddled back into that...
